Medieval Religion

they went to church about every single day. It was very tirrible not to go to church.

The church significantly influenced peasants by providing spiritual guidance and a sense of community, often serving as the center of social life in rural areas. It enforced moral standards and social norms, shaping the peasants' understanding of their roles within the feudal system. Additionally, the church offered support during times of hardship, such as famine or disease, through charitable acts and the distribution of alms. This relationship fostered a reliance on the church for both spiritual and practical needs, reinforcing its authority in peasant life.

As there is no proof of the existence of 'hell', we can not give you a definitive or

factual answer.

to go by biblical and church standards you would go to hell if you broke one of the 7 sins, were excommunicated, or went against the church

That depends where they are King, and how much power their ancestors gave away. The current Monarchs of United kingdom, Denmark or Belgium do not really have much power, but on the other hand Sultan Qaboos of Oman has total power in his country.

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The job of a medieval friar was to live not under a roof, but out in the open. They would beg for certain things as well since they weren't rich. In the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer portrays a friar as someone who tries to catch the summoner taking peoples money that is supposed to go to the church. Chaucer has a BIAS against Friar's in the actual middle ages.

Yes, priests were respected during the middel age. the church, controlled by the priests were a stablizing center during the time when the government was weak. the priests were also given gifts and money for the fogiveness for the sin they sold

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Amongst true Catholics they where respected, umoungst other faiths they where hated. This was a time of the Inqisitions and many priests used this to extract money from rich merchants and lords. It was also used to establish there authority over the people and created fear across all nations. Most historians now agree that most people where innocent of the heresy charges against them. So yes, they where respected, not because they where "good" people, but because of the hold they had over the life and death of people in those times.

Islam, at the time, was the only major religion to be seen after Christianity had grown. During a time which would lead to The Crusades, this wide-spread 'other' religion was viewed as a direct threat by the whole of Christendom.

The Islamic Caliphates were also a direct threat to the Christian Empires (like Byzantium, New Carthage, etc.) and conquered large swathes of formerly "Christian lands" in the Middle East and North Africa.

The only authorised religion in Europe during the Middle Ages were Christianity and Judaism. To have followed any other religion would have risked torture and being burnt at the stake, or the wheel, a gruesome replacement for crucifixion.

Christianity certainly did not unite the people of Europe during the Middle Ages. They were bitterly divided by Gnosticism versus the Orthodox-Catholic faith, the monophysite controvery, Arianism, Catharism, the Great Schism, the Western Schism and finally the Protestant Reformation. There seems to have been no time when Christianity was not divided, with the temporarily dominant branch persecuting the less powerful Christians.

During the First Crusade, supposedly against the Muslims in Palestine, resulted in an attack on the Hungarian city of Semlin and the burning of Belgrade. The eastern Christian capital city of Constantinople was sacked by the crusaders of the Fourth Crusade.

Henry II and Thomas Becket quarreled because they grew apart. Becket changed after he became Archbishop, and he stopped supporting Henry II. They also felt differently over the amount of power church courts should be given.

serf, nobles, kings, knights!! i think! :)

Primarily through converting and educating the people of Europe. The Benedictine monks copies ancient manuscripts for centuries before there were printing presses. They taught people to read and write. Charlemagne united all of Europe (save Spain) in the Holy Roman Empire. For more detailed information, read Ten Dates Every Catholic Should Know by Diane Moczar (information at the link below). For an even more detailed history get volumes 1, 2, and 3 of A History of Christendom by Warren H. Carroll.

The question of freedom during the Middle Ages is very complicated. It depends on what period within the time we are dealing with, and the location.

Slavery, for example, was common in Eastern Europe, but not as common in the West.

Particularly in the West, there were serfs, who were not slaves, and in some ways were free. For them, freedom consisted of the right to decide what to plant in their family fields, what to do with their possessions, and so on. Freedom did not, however, mean they could leave the manor where they lived and move somewhere else. They were bound to the manor, and had to live their lives there. They also had to share in the common work of the other people of the manor. One big advantage the serfs on the manors had was that they had the security of having a guaranteed job and place to live. They had security in times of distress.

The workers who lived in the towns were more free than the serfs on the manors, but were also at greater risk economically. If they lost their incomes, no one looked out for them.

The members of the aristocracy were rather free, but they owed allegiance to their superiors. If they were called to service, they had no option but to obey. They also were limited by rights and customs in ways we might find odd. For example, if they wanted to change the way their manors were operated, they did not have the right to move the serfs off the land.

The same sort of thing applied to wealthy professionals, though in a sense, they were freer than their aristocratic counterparts, because they did not have feudal obligations.

Even the monarchs were bound by custom and the feudal contracts they had with their vassals.

Everyone had obligations to the Church, as well. These were not as complicated, but did require attention. Nearly everyone had a tithe to provide, almost like a tax to the Church.

Of course, there were those who were almost wholly independent, such as minstrels, actors, and so on. They were more free to move about than other people, but were also without any specific protections, because they had no lords or masters to protect them.

Early in the Middle Ages, there were some Celtic Christians in the Anglo Saxon Kingdoms, but the Anglo Saxons mostly converted from their pagan religion to the Catholic Christianity. These two Churches gradually combined in time. There were some Jews in England during the High Middle Ages. And there were also a fairly large numbers of heretics, mostly Lollards, who were precursors to the Protestant Churches.

The Crusades consolidated Christian monarchies from Europe as the central political power from the Atlantic coast to China. They have seeded resentment and entitlement to violence amongst fanatical Muslim populations through the Middle East. They have also, recently, become a retroactive blight on the glory of Western Civilization, with every generation realizing more and more widely the price global society paid for "enlightenment."

Maybe another way of thinking this is to ask why modern people don't go to church. Everyone else did.

Today we are born in hospitals, and we die in hospitals. Funerals are built around dead bodies that have been carefully altered to look lifelike. Infant mortality is very low, and people live a long time. A person can live to be ninety and never see anyone die.

In the middle ages, people were born at home, and they died at home. The infant mortality rate was about 35%, and most people had siblings who had not survived. Everyone saw people die. People knew death, they understood death, and death was part of everyday life, an everpresent fact.

When people understand death, most either become religious or cynical. In those days, at least, it was considered better to be religious.

And of course, the Church wanted you to go. The Church offered inducements to go, and there was no advantage for most people not to go.

I would go on to say that many people regarded church as a way to have some relief from life, and maybe even have some fun. The Canterbury Tales depicts a lively, fun loving group of people who are having a vacation based on a religious excuse as much as being pilgrims for entirely devout reasons.

Black Death occurred in 1346 to 1353. At those times there was no treatment available.

In the Early Middle Ages, the most powerful office in the Church was pope.

After the Great Schism, the pope was the most powerful leader in the Roman Catholic Church, in the West, and the Patriarch of Constantinople was the most powerful in the Eastern Orthodox Church, in the East.

There was not a specific group of Roman philosophers. The Romans took up the philosophical schools of the Greeks of their time. The most popular ones were Stoicism and Epicureanism. Later Neoplatonism also became popular.

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A Monastery is occupied by a community of Monks only